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How Much E-Mail Spam Do You Get?

Since the start of the month I have seen my spam go up by nearly four fold -- with 99% of it being the new spam of "insider secrets" trying to get you to invest into these particular stocks. From what I have read regarding this new spam, the basic idea is the spammers want you to invest in these penny stocks based upon this "insider information", and then once these stocks increase, the spammers will pull their shares out and you'll end up loosing.

That used to be my biggest type but now it's the stock ones I mentioned...

We called it yesterday and now it's up 100%! Brand new
issue, XXXX XXXXXXX, heading straight up!

VERY tightly held, in a booming business sector, with a
huge publicity campaign starting up, XXXX XXXXXXX (XXXX)
is already bringing our readers huge gains. We advise you
to get in on this one as well and ride it to the top!

Symbol: XXXX
Current Price: 5.87
Projected Price: $15.40

Check the stats! Check the level 2! Imagine what this one
will do when the full force of the PR campaign hits it, in
conjunction with smashing news!

Major oil discovery? We are not permitted to say at this
point. All we can say is that this one is going to see
amazing appreciation in a very short period of time! This
is your opportunity. Win big with XXXX!

Not QUITE spooged up, but I've been seeing a lot more garbage in my Inbox- I'm using Citadel UX as the server, SpamAssassin, and it seems to be stemming most of it. I need to break down and add a few extra rules to SA to block some of the obvious stuff outright, including some of the stupid bounce reports from the idiots using forged headers.

Instead of plain text, it's a huge image with the message. They even add random markings of varying colors to confuse filters that -can- read images as spam... if such a thing exists.

I must get at least 20 messages like this a day

I feel sorry for people that are foolish enough to actually read this stuff. People must... or else we wouldn't get it in such huge abundance.

No, they're being very hopeful. It's all scam crap anyhow. And, there's got to be a signature based attack upon this sort of crap- guess I'll study the junk more and see if there's any hallmarks other than the description you gave for them (since I think everyone's getting that crap in their inbox of late...).